[Lubuntu-wiki-docs] End Of Life..

[Scott Kitterman]

I thought 12.04 had a non-PAE kernel and it was dropped in 12.10.  I think it 
was just made non-default and not available in the installer in 12.04.

Scott K

On Tuesday, April 09, 2013 03:59:51 PM David Gumberg wrote:
> For those of you who are wondering, the reason older machines can't run
> 12.10 or 12.04, it's because the kernel uses PAE (it's a method to have
> more than 4 gigs of ram on a 32-bit operating system I think), and for
> those of you who have hardware that doesn't support PAE, the two good
> alternatives are LXLE and Fedora (LXDE spin). If you want something more
> upstream, go with the Fedora, but if for some reason you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO
> have that Debian/buntu experience I'd go with LXLE (Lubuntu Extra-Life
> Edition), it's Lubuntu 12.04 with a couple of tweaks, and it uses a non-PAE
> kernel. I've tried and used both of them, and and Fedora is a bit more
> vanilla LXDE so I prefer it, but both alternatives are awesome!
> 
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) 
<amjjawad at gmail.com>wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been discussing this issue and Lubuntu 12.04 being 100% LTS or not
> > [1] and all the confusion about "will Lubuntu still support my very old
> > machine or not?" for the last two weeks or maybe more.
> > 
> > Long story short, I will jump in and find out myself some if not all the
> > answers that our users are seeking and looking for.
> > 
> > http://phillw.net/isos/lubuntu/lucid/
> > I'm downloading Lubuntu 10.04 right now from the above link.
> > 
> > I will install it once done on my test machine.
> > I need to see myself what is going on and the EOL for the 10.04 Desktop
> > version is coming soon, less than a month. That will be really interesting
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > As you know/may know, each release has different Kernel [2]. Some machines
> > can't use 12.04 or 12.10 because the support had been dropped/stopped. So,
> > if you guys have Qs about that, you do now know who is doing the test and
> > experiments.
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > 
> > [1] - http://i46.tinypic.com/i24igz.jpg
> > 
> > [2] -
> > http://amjjawad.blogspot.com/2013/04/lubuntu-and-very-old-machines.html<ht
> > tp://amjjawad.blogspot.ae/2013/04/lubuntu-and-very-old-machines.html>> 
> > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com>wrote:
> >> I have an update for 10.04
> >> 
> >> *Ending Ubuntu Desktop support just means that we no longer release
> >> desktop-
> >> related updates, the repository won't (can't) go away and be archived,
> >> since
> >> server, as you note, still depends on it.  In that sense, lucid in
> >> general
> >> is "supported" for another three years.  Nothing changes for people, they
> >> just won't get non-server SRUs and security updates from Canonical, nor
> >> is
> >> there a community commitment to make them.
> >> 
> >> So, your users don't need to do anything.  Kernels will keep getting
> >> updated,
> >> and life goes on.*
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> 
> >> Phill.
> >> 
> >>  On 29 March 2013 21:21, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi Folks,
> >>> 
> >>> just so everyone knows. The up coming EOL dates were a little bit
> >>> staggered on the exact dates. To bring everything together, the Release
> >>> Team have decided upon the following.
> >>> 
> >>> The following releases will all reach End Of Life on May 9th 2013.
> >>> 
> >>> Hardy 8.04 (Server)
> >>> Ubuntu 10.04 (Desk Top)
> >>> Ubuntu 11.10
> >>> 
> >>> As 10.04 is supported on server until 2015 thus giving such people at
> >>> least a chance of still receiving kernel updates, I have asked if there
> >>> is
> >>> a way for the 10.04 lubuntu desktop to continue to receive the kernel
> >>> updates for lubuntu 10.04 desktop for those of whom the dropping of the
> >>> old
> >>> chip sets is the only option they have.
> >>> 
> >>> The area at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases has been updated by the
> >>> team to reflect the revised dates.
> >>> 
> >>> Regards,
> >>> 
> >>> Phill.
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